Re: Is the party over?

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:08:13 -0700 (PDT), Sampo Syreeni <decoy_at_iki.fi> wrote:

>On Apr 3, 11:49 am, Roy Hann <specia..._at_processed.almost.meat> wrote:
>> I know Usenet has been pretty effectively hobbled if not completely
>> killed off, but the conversations/squabbles that used to get
>> aired here on c.d.t. must still go on somewhere.
>>
>> Where?

>I see two directions, technology-wise. Either we go to the old tech,
>which is some combination of IRC and mailing lists. Or we go with the
>newer tech, which is a group or some simulacrum of it, using either
>Facebook or Google Plus.

     I go for USENET. I subscribe to The Third Manifesto list, and one nasty problem with it is no threading which can make it difficult to follow a discussion that has broken up into subthreads. Subthreads are easily handled with my newsreader software.

     Like ALGOL, USENET is a great improvement over many of its successors.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Tue Apr 17 2012 - 22:39:50 CEST